Software Development Engineer - AI/LLM Network - Global Frontier Tech Research Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2027. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at our Company. Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2027. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Topic Content

With the large-scale adoption of LLMs and AI agents, traditional cloud-native infrastructure can no longer meet the ultra-high performance and elasticity requirements of AI workloads. Network and Observability: Research intelligent fault localization and root cause analysis for large-scale AI clusters, combined with intelligent tuning of time-series databases to improve cluster stability. This topic aims to build a next-generation AI-native infrastructure to support the deployment of LLMs and AI agents, improve resource utilization, reduce costs, support elastic scaling, and drive the technological evolution of AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Individuals who are completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Preferred Qualifications: Proficiency in computer network and network programming. Proficiency in one or several mainstream programming languages, including C/C++, Python, Go and so on. Be familiar with the latest advances in the area of high-speed network systems, including RDMA, congestion control, AI network optimization and so on. Experience in developing high performance communication frameworks(including NCCL, MPI and RPC libraries) is a plus. Experience in developing software systems for AI network diagnosis and performance optimization is a plus.

About Us

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